buttocks of a horse being ridden or followed
Literal meaning; refers to the rear of a horse that someone is riding or following. Rarely used outside the idiom 尻馬に乗る.
blindly following suit; jumping on the bandwagon
Used almost exclusively in the idiom 尻馬に乗る, meaning to follow others without thinking or to jump on a trend without understanding it.
See also: 尻馬に乗る
The word 尻馬 literally refers to the rear part of a horse being ridden.
He's always just blindly following others.
It's fine to follow trends, but just jumping on the bandwagon is pointless.
Standard kanji spelling.
Search-only form; not a standard written variant.
Compound of 尻 (buttocks, rear) and 馬 (horse). The figurative sense comes from the image of following the rear of a horse without thinking.